But new research from the University of Chicago is urging caution. After analyzing data from multiple observations of the ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers have ... and icy objects that lie just beyond the outermost planet, Neptune. That could hint at a pattern in how planetary systems ...

In April, the scientific world—and the public—was abuzz with the thrilling news that a distant planet called K2-18b might ...

"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller planets." ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

For the first time in history, we now have real, high-resolution images of Neptune that go beyond artist impressions and ...

The data confirms one long-held suspicion regarding sub-Neptune atmospheres while flying in the face of another. Discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope throughout the early 2010s, sub-Neptunes ...

Unlike the James Webb Space Telescope's views of other sub-Neptune exoplanets' atmospheres, its look at TOI-421 b was clear. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Dani Player illustration A sweltering planet ...